Ever wonder what’s up with the name of my music studio? I’m so glad you asked! Macondo is the name of a fictional Colombian town in Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s novel “One Hundred Years of Solitude”, one of the defining novels of the magical realism genre. Latin American literature was one of my first loves, passed down to me by my unforgettable high school Spanish teacher. I’ll never forget her lovingly reading passages from “Chronicle of a Death Foretold” to a classroom of eye-rolling teenagers. She passionately loved Latin American literature and her students. I ended up going the distance with Spanish. I have an MA in Spanish but it turns out I’d rather wax poetic about vocal formants or scales because for me music is the intersection of magical realism. Music is visceral, practical and technical while at the same time also being one of the most magical and real things in our world!